Happy Families
StarringTamsin Heatley
Richard Hope
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes24 (12 stories)
Production
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkBBC One
Release6 November 1989 (1989-11-06) 
18 December 1990 (1990-12-18)

Happy Families is a British children's television series made in the late 1980s based on the Happy Families series of books by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Happy Families ran for two series, 24 episodes in all (since each story was split over two episodes), and was shown on Children's BBC in 1989 and 1990.

Synopsis

Each tale is about a family of characters – typically father, mother, son and daughter, but this varies.

The cast played several different characters throughout the series with many recurring roles for the main cast including Milton Johns, Annette Badland and Elizabeth Estensen.

Cast

Episodes

Series One (1989)

  • "Mrs Wobble the Waitress"
  • "Mr Tick the Teacher"
  • "Mr Creep the Crook"
  • "Master Bun the Baker's Boy"
  • "Mrs Plug the Plumber"
  • "Mr and Mrs Hay the Horse"

Series Two (1990)

  • "Mrs Lather's Laundry"
  • "Master Salt the Sailors' Son"
  • "Miss Brick the Builders' Baby"
  • "Master Money the Millionaire"
  • "Mr Biff the Boxer"
  • "Miss Jump the Jockey"
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